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How to Get the Golden Shovel DIY Recipe

Animal Crossing New Horizons (ACNH) - How to Get the Golden Shovel Guide

Get the Golden Shovel by getting recipes and doing some challenging tasks in Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH). Check out our guide below to find out what you need to unlock and craft the Golden Shovel!

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How to Get the Golden Shovel

Step Instruction
1  Help Gulliver 30 times.
2  Open your mailbox.

1. Help Gulliver 30 times

ACNH - Gulliver washes up ashore

Occasionally, Gulliver will wash up on the shore of your island needing to be rescued. After you've rescued Gulliver 30 times, he'll send you the DIY Recipe for the Golden Shovel.

How to Help Gulliver the Seagull

2. Open your mailbox.

ACNH - A resident receives a letter from Gulliver

Translation: “Thank you for helping me so many times! As thanks, I want to send you this Very Very Rare Golden Shovel DIY Recipe! Hope it helps out!”

After helping Gulliver, access your mailbox the next day. You'll receive a letter from Gulliver containing the Golden Shovel DIY Recipe!

Golden Shovel Basic Infomation

Golden Shovel ImageGolden Shovel
Sell Price 10675
Durability 200 Uses

Materials Needed for Golden Shovel

Needed Materials Amount
Gold Nugget ImageGold Nugget 1
Shovel ImageShovel 1

Don't forget that a rare Gold Nugget is required to make a Golden Shovel. Make sure you know how to get your hands on one of these first before trying to craft the Golden Shovel.

How to Get Gold Nuggets Fast

How to Use the Golden Shovel

Is the Golden Shovel Worth It?

The Golden Shovel Can Break

ACNH - A resident breaks a golden shovel

Translation: “Oh no! The Golden Shovel broke! Guess I wore it out...”

Unlike previous games in the series, it's been confirmed that the Golden Shovel can break. Based on our tests, the Golden Shovel breaks after around 200 strikes so currently, it doesn't appear to be significantly worth the effort to upgrade.

Hovever, it can be used as a cool decoration to flex up your tools!

Cannot Make Instant Money Trees

In previous games, the Golden Shovel had the unique ability to create a Money Tree by planting a Bell Bag anywhere in the ground. According to our tests, this doesn't seem to work in New Horizons.

Does Not Dig Faster

When compared to other Shovels, the Golden Shovel doesn't seem to be any faster at digging or hitting rocks.

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Comment

9 Anonymousover 3 years

durability. the metal shovel has 100 uses, while the golden shovel has 200 uses. I wish it was still possible to do the instant money trees though or if they brought gems back or something 😅

8 Anonymousover 4 years

Same dude!!! I don’t get it, I’m TT but I don’t see how that matters I’ve definitely helped 30 times

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